Do You Have ADHD?

If you don't have ADHD you need it to become a healthier and/or trimmer person! Now don't start shaking your head and thinking I've lost my mind. People can't just decide they want ADHD and get it all on their own, can they? Yes, you can. It's all in the mind!

I'm not talking about the ADHD where you are "bouncing off the walls" and can't keep your mind on tasks at hand. I'm talking about Attitude, Diligence, Habit and Determination.

I'm going to rearrange the words a little while talking about them because they really need to be approached in reverse order on your trip to a healthier life style.

The first step needs to be DETERMINATION. You have to really want to become a healthier person. Some of you have been faced with a medical situation that has made you need to become healthier but without the determination (the want), it just won't happen. Some of you just want to be healthier in order to feel better not just physically but mentally. Without determination this can't happen. If you've already started on this trip and are continuing through with it, then that is the first step in getting to your destination. You must be determined that you are going to succeed.

The second stage of your journey is HABIT. We must all break a few old habits and form new ones in order to become better people. By better people I mean healthier and happier people. Habits are hard to break and even harder to form but if you are determined, you can do it. Learn what the old habits of overindulgence and incorrect food choices were and change them. Find out what exercises are best for you and your life style and stick to them. You must do this one small step at a time in order to be successful. Remember a journey of a thousand miles begins with one small step.

The third stage is DILIGENCE. If you don't stick to your new habits you are never going to reach the end of your journey. We have to be diligent with our food choices and with our exercise choices. Oh, now and then we waver and make a wrong turn. You know what it's like to turn left instead of right and sometimes begin to wonder where you are? Well, that can happen to us on this trip too, but with diligence we know we have to get back on the right road. Unless you turn around and get headed back in the right direction you'll never reach you destination. You must persevere.

And last, but by no means least is ATTITUDE. What kind of attitude have you adopted on this trip? Do you have a blase' attitude or do you have a gung-ho attitude? Blase' attitudes will get us by in any situation and sometimes just "by the skin of our teeth." But we need to have a gung-ho attitude. We need to change our mental posture in order to be proud of our exterior posture. We need to be proud of what we are doing and what we have accomplished. Show your attitude on this journey by strutting a little (and I don't mean physically). Show everyone around you that you're proud of what you have done and proud of whom you're becoming. I've said in a couple of my other posts that you have to have the right mind set to accomplish this mission. And by that I mean attitude. When your attitude changes, all around you change as well. If others see your positive, gung-ho attitude towards your new life style, they'll be happy for you and proud of your accomplishments as well. They won't want you to change back to the old self because they will like your new attitude towards yourself now. And who knows you might inspire someone else to become a healthier person as well. Attitude is everything. Be proud of what you are doing and who you are becoming.

And when you finally get to where you are headed do strut a little because you deserve it, you can be proud to be you!!

Now let me ask you again. Do you have ADHD?

(This was inspired by Pattie and her June contest on Attitude.)

Back on the Right Road

Well, I'm back on track with my usual choices.

Yesterdays meals:

Breakfast: 1/2 can soup w/saltines

Lunch: 1 oz. regular cheese w/triscuits

Supper: 3 oz. chicken breast grilled, 1 1/2 cups Brussels sprouts

Snack: Salad w/1/2 cup kidney beans and croutons w/Catalina Free dressing, and pumpkin custard w/Cool Whip free

This all came to approximately 1150 calories but I didn't figure the WW points.

This is my usual fare and sometimes I vary the lunch with a half a sandwich but forgot to buy something to put on the bread.

Today's meal plan:

Breakfast: same as yesterday

Lunch: same as yesterday

Supper: 3 oz. grilled chicken breast on two slices light wheat bread w/light mayo and lettuce and small baked potato w/light butter

Snack: same as yesterday.

This will probably be a little more in calories than yesterday because of the potato and butter but it will still be well within my calorie allotment.

Did some core exercises last night in front of the TV and am feeling it this morning. My female dog is a hoot. When I got in the floor to do the exercises she was all over me. Rubbed her cheeks against my face and hair then would rub all the way down one side and up the other. She think the only reason I get in the floor is to be with her. Guess she's just happy that I'm on her level when I'm down there. At least it gave me a laugh and made the yucky exercises more bearable.

My best friend surprised me yesterday by pulling up in my driveway. She's been at her second home in Missouri and wasn't due back until the end of the month. Said she just got homesick. Now maybe I'll have someone to go to Cranberry with to walk. That only problem is that she is a morning person and I'm not. She'll want to go early and I'll want to go in the afternoon. We shall see what happens.

Munchies

Well, yesterday was a bust. I ate everything in sight yesterday evening. Wasn't hungry when I did it either. Just wanted it. Oh, well, it was just one day and today's a new one. I'm pretty sure where I went wrong is that I stopped at Sub Way on my way home Thursday and got one of their $5 foot longs. Brought it home and ate half of it that night for dinner. Not so bad, but that left the other half for yesterday and I was thinking that I'd only eat half of that and not over do it. I couldn't stop at that. I also bought some fresh corn on the cob and when I got started on them I couldn't stop. I kept boiling another one until I had eaten them all. Hey corn is a little on the high side calorie wise but the light butter that I lathered them with was way over the top. Just couldn't help myself. Then the munchies set in. Just kept dipping my hand in the bags of goodies without measuring and munched away. I keep Chex Mix and Doritos in the house to allow myself a taste once in a while because stuff like that was my downfall and I really tried to give them up all together but I just can't. I usually only have one measured out portion about 3 times a week and always count the calories and points and adjust my other intakes accordingly. Not yesterday though!!

Ok, today is going to be different. Back to my regular meals and no side tracking for me today!! Or the rest of the week. I probably really blew my loss.

I got to thinking this past week and decided to raise my goal from 140 to 150. At 192, right now, I'm wearing a size 16 jeans and they are a little big. Remember I bought some 14's but got the low rise ones (by mistake) and just can't wear them right now because they are really slim cut. So if I buy my regular brand and style I will probably be comfortable in the 14's. That will probably put me into 10's or 12's by 150 and I think that is small enough for my age. If I would happen to become ill I'd need a little meat on the old bones. (I'm one of the baby boomers and will hit 62 on Friday, yep, Friday the Thirteenth.) Course I haven't been to the doctor for a check up in almost 2 years and I really need to do that. The 150 isn't set in stone so I will make an appointment next week and see what he has to say. Then I'll decide for sure.

Yesterday was such a beautiful day here. Blue skies, some small puffy clouds, no rain, high temperature around 90. I took a quilt out to pad the porch swing and a couple of pillows and laid in the swing watching the trees some and read. Even dozed for a little while. Boy, talk about the life of Riley. Yea, yea, I know it would have been a great day for exercising but I didn't even think about that at the time. Maybe today.

The grass is getting a little high and the boy that usually mows it for me hasn't shown up this week so I think I may tackle it myself. In the past I haven't been able to do that unless I stop at least 3 times to rest. We will see how long it takes me now that I'm not quite as fat and have a little more stamina. Don't know if I'll tackle the weed eater though. I hat those things. They beat you to death. Maybe I'll save that for another day.

Hope your Saturday is going as planned and a happy one.

Just Ramblin'

Got all the errands done yesterday, Bluck. At least I don't have to go to the grocery store again until next week. And I even took the garbage to the dump!

I've been really lax the past year or so about doing my dishes. You see, I don't have a dishwasher because of being on a well. They just use too much water for a well. So I have no where to hide my dirty dishes while waiting for enough to accumulate to was them. Well, I got even lazier than that and would only do them when I ran out of silverware or bowls or...you get the idea. And no they didn't smell because I rinsed them out when putting them in the sink. So by the time I got around to doing them the sink would be overflowing and the counter would usually be full. Nobody sees them but me, right? But every time I'd get around to doing them it would take forever and I'd have a counter full of drying dishes (I never dry them and put them right away, just too much effort when the air will do the job). About 4 days ago I decided I didn't like the looks of the mess and have started doing the dishes nightly. I'm on a 4 day streak now and it does feel nice to have a clean kitchen and sink in the mornings.

Started a new book yesterday while setting on the porch swing just enjoying the afternoon. Boy was that nice. Note to self: get a cushion for the swing, my butt isn't as padded as it used to be and there was some discomfort after setting there for a while. I didn't notice the discomfort while reading but when I got up to go in the house to fix myself some supper it was sore. The book isn't a new one (copyright 1992) but new to me. It's "Hideaway" by Dean Koontz. Seems like a good one. It really gripped me in the beginning. I used to read everything Stephen King wrote until he had his accident. Then his writing changed and I'm not as crazy about him anymore. I'm also reading Catherine Coulter in bed at night (can't remember the name of it) but I don't think she really wrote it. The sentence structure is just so amateur and most of the conversations between characters doesn't make sense. I've read her before and don't remember that being the case with her work. Thank goodness for Amazon, I've got 5 more waiting for me when these are finished.

Sorry I rambled so much on stuff that doesn't interest you. Have a great weekend!!

Tummy Ache...

I took it. I just couldn't help myself, I went ahead a recorded the loss of 1.5. Now, Cara, I don't call that a big loss but it surely is bigger than it has been with a measly half pound here and there. I had set myself a goal (when I started) of getting to goal by Christmas of this year and if I do I'll have to lose an average of 3.5 pounds a week from here on out. That ain't gonna happen!! So I've decided not to set anymore goals like that one.

I enjoyed the steak last night. But boy I paid for it all evening. Can you say gastrointestinal discomfort? I think it is really weird how our bodies get used to the healthier stuff and then doesn't like the "yummy" stuff we used to eat.

Thank goodness last night was a peaceful one. No having to get up and go down stairs for anything, just got to sleep for a change.

One of the hardest things I trained myself to do when I started this diet is to slow down my eating. Being a teacher, we only got 30 minutes for lunch and stupid me took the option of cafeteria duty for some extra pay. That meant that I had to scan the lunch cards of the students while they were in line to eat and that usually took between 10-15 minutes. Then I'd eat really quick so I'd have time to go outside and set in my car and have a smoke. (Yea, I'm a smoker :-( and that's something else I have to quit but not while on this diet.) I was noticing the last time I had company that I was always the last one finished with my meal and that was weird, I used to be the first. But slowing down surely helps me not overeat like I used to do. I can remember the horrible feeling of being too full about an hour after finishing a meal and I don't have to put up with that anymore.

Gotta get off my duff and read some blogs so I can get to town for the dreaded grocery shopping.

Have a great day out there!

Conumdrum

I don't know what to do. Since I posted earlier today I weighed myself again and it shows a weight loss of 1.5 pounds now. Which one do I go by? HELP!!

Who Needs a Stair Master?

What a horrible night. I don't have a bathroom upstairs, where my bedroom is, and I hate trudging down the stairs in the middle of the night to use the potty so I decided to take my antique "thunder mug" with me a few nights ago. Wow, didn't have to use it at all the first couple of nights and then came last night. Some time about 2 hours into the sleep I had to use the durn thing, (I hate cleaning it out in the mornings too). Then when I'd gotten back to sleep I heard one of my dogs heaving. What a wonderful sound to wake up too. I jumped up and turned on the light and there she was right at the foot of the bed with a couple of little piles of, well, you know. I had to go downstairs to get something to clean it up and wait until I was sure she was finished then laid back down and went back to sleep. A little while later I felt her licking me which means that she has to go outside really bad. So up I got and went downstairs again. I stayed down here until she was ready to come back in and back to bed I went. Then about 8:00 this morning (I didn't get to bed until 2 AM) I was under attack. Or that's what my sleepy head thought. I heard the sound of helicopters above my house. Not one but two. It sounded like they were hovering there for the longest time. I called a neighbor when I got up and he said they weren't really that close and they didn't hover just drove overhead real slow. Probably looking for pot fields. He was out feeding his hunting dogs when they went over. Ok, there must be a moral to this story and I think it is that I shouldn't be so lazy and just come downstairs to potty from now on. That's the only moral I can think of. So from now on the "thunder mug" stays in the bathroom as a decoration.


And to beat it all when I got on the scales this morning for my weigh-in, nada, nothing, zip!!. Not a bit of difference in last week. I've been so good this past week. I've stayed under my calories every day but one and that one I only went over by 150. I got some good cardio in and burned a lot of calories doing it. WHY am I stuck in the 190's? I've been there since March, fluctuating up and down. I am definitely going to eat that steak tonight. Maybe that will kick start something. It has worked before and I have just felt too guilty lately to try it. After all a rib eye is full of fat. And that's the only kind I like. Think I'll even try some onion rings with it and here is the recipe for them that I am borrowing from MaryFran. (Hope you don't mind my reposting the recipe, but it sounds so good. And I did give you credit for it. :-) )

Onion Rings

One Vidalia Onion (sliced and separated into rings)
Flour
Egg whites or Egg substitute
Seasoned bread crumbs

Spray cookie sheet with Pam.
Dip each ring in flour, then egg, then bread crumbs.
Place on cookie sheet and bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes.

Happy Hump Day!

Fit and Trim

I don't understand why, when I get my walking (wancing actually) in, I feel great and want to go out and do it again. Then the next day comes and I have a really hard time talking myself into it. And usually, mostly, the lazy self wins. I hope that doesn't happen today. I'm going to try to keep remembering Cammy's Makeover Monday and turn up the heat. Wish me luck.

I can't believe it's June already. The nights here are still cool and I have to turn on a little heat in the morning to take the chill off and then at night right before going to bed it's too hot to sleep and on goes the AC for about an hour to cool things off. I've tried opening windows to let the cool air in but when there isn't a breeze it doesn't help. And the window is right over my head and when I leave it opened I wake up with a scratchy throat. It usually goes away after a while but I'm afraid some day it won't and I'll end up with a cold.

I did really well on my eating yesterday and with all the callories burned (see my stats on the right) I sure hope it shows some weight loss on Wednesday. One good thing is that the legs aren't as sore as they used to be the day after. What? Could it be that I'm starting to get fit too? Oh, my goodness. What on earth will I do with a trim and fit body? I just might have to learn how to strut a little.

Hope you have a wonderful week.

CalleeCat

Just had to share this picture with you. When I went out to grill my dinner, my CalleeCat was just setting there. I was sure she'd move before I got my camera but I think she's just a ham at heart.

All's well on the mountain top. Had another relaxing day. Still no neighbors and kids are still busy so it was just me, myself and I yesterday. Didn't do much except finish my book :-( I hate it when that happens. Then I have to start a new one and get into a whole new set of characters. Just when I thought I'd gotten to know the old ones really well. Course I already know there's another one with this main character. I've been reading the Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz. I won't buy the next one until it comes out in paperback form. I hate reading hardbacks. They're just too heavy and hard to read in bed.

Have a good work week!!

Short but Sweet...

This is really going to be short for me. Not much to report, but report I must. (Just for my own accountability).

Thunderstorms rolled in yesterday. The neighbors were out of town. My girls were busy with their own families and didn't call. So I just curled up on the couch with my book and read and napped all day. Yeah, I could have cleaned the house but since nobody's around to see it, I didn't, so who cares it if waits for another day. The house sure didn't complain.

Did well on my food intake yesterday. Stayed within my points and calorie suggestions. Didn't walk because it wasn't my day. Today is and I will do that this afternoon. Remember I'm not a morning person.

Hope the rest of your weekend is a good one.